Web based,
middleware intensive, transactional system to run international
franchisees’ businesses as a service. Large Java-J2EE
app on BEA Weblogic.
Ground up, three-year long, fixed-priced project involving full
life cycle:
- Requirements Analysis
- Components Based Design
- Component Code Development
- Ongoing Maintenance and Support of B2B and B2C global franchisee
system.
- Designed and managed in the Rational Unified Process framework
using the full set of Rational tools, programmed in Java,
servlets and EJBs on BEA Weblogic application server.
- Integrated franchisee system with Blue Martini based main
corporate Website.
System is now being extended using Web Services to provide
online Excel based decision support in real time to franchisees
and to Gymboree management.
Continuing to provide complete maintenance and help desk support
via annual contracts.
Franchisee management system design applicable to large number
of business contexts as a cost-effective product that can
be initiated in the small but scaled to virtually any size
over time.
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Market Opportunity:
- Intense pressure on C-level executives to deliver business
results and manage shareholder value creation in highly
volatile markets.
- Current management consulting practice and related technology
tools are neither real time nor truly link CxO decisions
to value.
- Business intelligence systems do not include external
information, future projections, best practices, and hence
miss the CxO suite.
- ERP, CRM, SCM, and Web-based silos unable to deliver critical
real-time data for CxO decision making due to huge integration
costs.
Value Proposition:
- Develop Web Services software to enable enterprise-wide,
strategy-focused, value-based decision making in real time
by CxO’s.
- Long term goal is to have our software populate the desktop
of every key decision maker in every major corporation in
the world.
Innovative Product:
- Series of Web Services powered dashboards for CxOs supported
by back-end business process management systems, content
management systems, real-time data services, and applications
integration, with complete security in data transfer and
usage.
- External information, analytics, and best practices center
supplies critical inputs to these dashboards for real-time
decision making.
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